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<H1>The "Artistic License"</H1>

<H2>Preamble</H2> 
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The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a 
Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some 
semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, 
while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute 
the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make 
reasonable modifications. 
 
<H3>Definitions:</H3>
<DL>
<DD>"Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the   
    Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files 
    created through textual modification. 
 
<DD>"Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been 
    modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes 
    of the Copyright Holder as specified below. 
 
<DD>"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or 
    copyrights for the package. 
 
<DD>"You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing 
    this Package. 
 
<DD>"Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the 
    basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, 
    and so on.  (You will not be required to justify it to the 
    Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large 
    as a market that must bear the fee.) 
 
<DD>"Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item 
    itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item. 
    It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it 
    under the same conditions they received it. 

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<LI>You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the 
Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you 
duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers. 
 
<LI>You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications 
derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder.  A Package 
modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version. 
 
<LI>You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided 
that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and 
when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the 
following: 
 

<OL TYPE=a>
<LI>place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them 
    Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or 
    an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive 
    site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include 
    your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package. 
 
<LI>use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization. 
 
<LI>rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict 
    with standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide 
    a separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly 
    documents how it differs from the Standard Version. 
 
<LI>make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. 

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<LI>You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or 
executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following: 
 
<OL TYPE=a>
<LI>distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, 
    together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where 
    to get the Standard Version. 
 
<LI>accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of 
    the Package with your modifications. 
 
<LI>give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly 
    document the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together 
    with instructions on where to get the Standard Version. 
 
<LI>make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. 

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<LI>You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this 
Package.  You may charge any fee you choose for support of this 
Package.  You may not charge a fee for this Package itself.  However, 
you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly 
commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software 
distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a 
product of your own.  You may embed this Package's interpreter within 
an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere 
form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the 
interpreter is so embedded. 
 
<LI>The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as 
output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall 
under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever generated 
them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this 
Package.  If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this 
Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing a 
binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall 
neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it 
fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do 
not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this 
Package. 
 
<LI>C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other 
languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to 
emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this 
Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the 
equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do 
not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the 
regression tests for the language. 
 
<LI>Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always 
permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is, 
when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible 
to the end user of the commercial distribution.  Such use shall not be 
construed as a distribution of this Package. 
 
<LI>The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote 
products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 
 
<LI>THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR 
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED 
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 
 
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